Afternoon Drive withJoanne Joseph

If Costa Rica can go from broken to brilliant in 15 years, why can’t we?

— Dr Adrian Saville, Cannon Asset Managers

A study of 150 countries over 60 years suggests there are six common ingredients associated with socioeconomic prosperity, according to Dr Adrian Saville (CEO of Cannon Asset Managers, Professor at Gordon Institute of Business Science).

Savings and investment

Demography

Policy and institutions

Education

Health

Openness

You can remove Zuma from the equation and take the Guptas away, but we still haven’t built sufficient six-pack ingredients to generate the promised 5.4 percent. Our modelling tells us the South African six-pack is more like a wobbly three-pack.”